Deus Ex Malcontent has put up this terrific TV Funhouse video (of SNL fame) lampooning the corporate media. Interesting tidbit, according to DEM, this video was considered by NBC Standards and Practices to be too offensive, and so was only run the once.
I’m definitely using this video in the Media and [...]
Open Left put up this video today by Michio Kaku on the Kardashev Scale:
Currently, the Earth as a whole is ranked at roughly a 0.7 on the Kardashev scale. We are not even a Type I civilization yet.
I was very intrigued by Kaku’s discussion of the evolution of structures such as [...]
My PS 545 American Political Thought class is doing a major Digital Ethnography project in Second Life this semester. To get everyone on the same page, we went on a “digital field trip” in the lab the other week,
and had some fun deconstructing the meth lab simulation on UK Island. That’s me in the all-black [...]
Attention Conservation Notice: Ran across this video and wanted to save it here for my future use. If you don’t care about becoming a better public speaker, please ignore. Thanks, Mgmt.
Some days it can be very depressing being an educator.
Does having Ingrid Michaelson’s “The Way I Am” and Colby Caillat’s “Bubbly” on steady rotation on my iPod on Valentine’s Day make me a total girl?
I need a Man Law ruling, but I suspect I already know the answer…
So, the NYT ran a story yesterday comparing Obama to a Mac and Clinton to a PC.
This feels about right to me. There is something very Mac-ish about Obama, though it’s difficult to put my finger on. The NYT article is discussing the styles of their websites and other campaign web presences, but I think [...]
